STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 22 (UPI) -- The statue of Joe Paterno was removed from its site outside the Penn State football stadium for safekeeping early Sunday, school officials announced.
Work crews arrived at Beaver Stadium at daybreak Sunday and used jackhammers to remove the bronze statue of the legendary coach, which Penn State President Rodney Erickson said had become a "lightning rod" in the sexual-abuse scandal centered on Paterno's one-time assistant Jerry Sandusky.